You may expect prices at the pumps to fall back.

In other words, they expect prices to rise and yields to fall over the next three months.

Most analysts are expecting prices lower than last year's level.

We are expecting prices to go down again this year.

An even larger proportion expected higher, rather than lower, prices six months ahead.

As for inflation, 37 percent said they expected prices to go up a lot in the next year.

Virtually everyone, 89 percent of the respondents, said they expected prices to go up at least a little in the next year.

Last year, they expected prices to rise only 2.3 percent.

But the executive said that she expected prices to continue to fall.

Companies that buy and sell power are already expecting higher prices this summer.